Hello all, I am looking for something of a survey of examples of Gentoo-driven clusters out there. If such a survey has been done, perhaps someone point me to it. But I would like to hear from others on the list about their clusters.
I am in the process of advocating for using Gentoo on a new cluster that we will be building. The cluster will be a "hyperwall", meaning that each node will have graphics, forming a grid of displays for multi-parameter, multi-dimensional scientific visualization. There will also be several disk servers which will run Suse in order to get Lustre support (Lustre support on the client side will be OS-neutral when the current beta is officially released). In addition to graphics, the nodes will also be used for compute jobs (scientific), and may serve as a testbed for a production scientific computing environment. In the process of making my case, I've been asked what other examples there are of large Gentoo clusters. This cluster will be 128 nodes (dual socket, dual or quad core). Of particular interest are production and/or scientific environments - not so much database clusters, though all examples are of interest. Use of MPI is particularly relevant. Graphics clusters are also of interest of course. I'd be grateful for any feedback I get from others on the list about the clusters they maintain or use, and perhaps some comments about the efficacy of Gentoo in an environment where stability is very important, and how system administration compares to administration of a Suse or Redhat cluster. Thanks, -bryan -- gentoo-cluster@gentoo.org mailing list
